The Union of Tunisian University Teachers and Researchers (IJABA) has staged a sit-in in front of the Ministry of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research to protest the freezing of wages of striking teachers. Najmeddine Jaouida, General Coordinator of the union, called on MEPs not to adopt a bill which would promote investment in the private education sector. He felt that this law would provide for a definitive break with the public university and lead the way to an anarchic privatization of universities.

The minister of transport, Hichem Ben Ahmed, has denied that plans are afoot to privatize Tunisair. But he “announced that a council of ministers chaired by the head of government, Chahed Youssef, will be held next month to study the reorganization of Tunisair.”

Maher Gaida of the Order of Accountants says public enterprises need to be made more efficient, well-managed and economically justified, but “those who think we have too many public companies in the country are wrong. In relation to the magnitude of the projects to be undertaken in this country, we need more public companies, but healthy, efficient companies that are inverting, taking risks and pulling forward, which is far from the case today.”

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